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Software Dev Engineer II, Aurora Open Source Engines

Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Redmond, WA · 2 wk ago
ConsultingFull-time

Are you interested in building hyper-scale database services in the cloud? Do you want to revolutionize the way databases are built for the cloud? Do you want to have direct and immediate impact on hundreds of thousands of users who use AWS database services? Amazon Aurora is an exciting new area of innovation for AWS, and the Postgres-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora is built on one of the most active code bases in the open source community.

About the role

The Postgres-compatible version of Amazon Aurora is a relational database which offers enterprise-class performance, availability and durability to our customers, along with the management benefits of RDS. We are one of the fastest growing businesses within Amazon Web Services, currently spread across Seattle. If you’re an engineer looking to grow, join us to work with one of the most senior teams in AWS. Our senior engineers are eager to brainstorm, mentor, and build software together. We tackle challenging problems in distributed systems, concurrency, database internals, caching, durability, file systems management, indexing, and performance engineering.

As part of the Amazon Aurora Open Source Engines team, you will own the design and development of significant system software components critical to our industry-leading database services architected for the cloud. You will architect, design, and implement highly scalable distributed database systems that provide availability, reliability, and performance guarantees. This is a hands-on position where you will build rock-solid components, mentor other engineers, and collaborate across diverse teams and environments.

Responsibilities

  • Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
  • Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
  • Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products.
  • Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.
  • Create metrics, implement automation, and resolve the root cause of software defects.
  • Build high-impact solutions for a large customer base.
  • Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
  • 1+ years of programming in Java, C++, Python, or related language experience.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

About the team

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible, and ACID-compliant relational database engine that combines the speed and reliability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. Aurora PostgreSQL serves as a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL, simplifying the setup, operation, and scaling of PostgreSQL deployments.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members with a broad mix of experience levels and tenures. We foster an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship, with senior members providing one-on-one mentoring and thorough code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that develop your engineering expertise.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans).
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support.
  • Medical Advice Line and Flexible Spending Accounts.
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching.
  • Paid time off and parental leave.
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

Pay

Base salary range: $143,700.00 - $194,400.00 USD annually (USA, WA, Redmond). Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and location.

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